Legalization could have prevented this...

[dankpete]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...heroin05.html#

12 dead, tainted heroin suspected
February 5, 2006

BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter Advertisement

Chicago Police are investigating the deaths of 12 people who died in or are known to have purchased heroin along the same two-block stretch of the city's South Side in the last three weeks, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Investigators began to notice a pattern of overdoses of people who bought heroin on South State Street -- between 27th and 29th streets -- five days ago.

Police were expected to issue a community alert as early as today about the heroin, which authorities suspect might have been cut with a prescription pain-killer commonly used by cancer patients.

"Anyone who knows what this might be or who is selling this tainted substance should call police," said Chicago Police Deputy Supt. Charles L. Williams, who Saturday night couldn't confirm the number of victims.

'Killing them within minutes'



He did confirm the location of where the tainted drugs were sold but said his fear is that it could be peddled anywhere in the city.

"It could pop up anyplace," Williams said. "This really drives home that point: Don't do drugs."

The latest fatality, a 21-year-old man, slipped into a Chicago area hospital Friday night and overdosed instantly, using a bathroom there as cover, unbeknownst to staff.

"It seems to be killing them within minutes," the source told the Sun-Times.

Many of the dozen deaths have been ruled accidental, but until toxicological tests are complete, authorities won't know definitively what killed the users.

The pattern was detected because of the high number of victims of overdoses within a short time period.

The victims, ages 21 to mid-40s, are from all over Chicago.

Free drugs took toll in '05



Last summer, ambulances responded several times to the same West Side neighborhood in one day after at least seven people became ill after taking free bags of heroin, Chicago Police said.

Investigators said during the August 2005 incidents that the heroin was being offered in the 1400 block of West Hastings.

Victims told authorities that they received free heroin in orange baggies and had taken it before getting sick.

At least one victim was found passed out with his fists clenched, a police spokesman said.

It was unclear what was wrong with the heroin, although one possibility was that it was more pure than what the users were used to taking.

During that time, Chicago Police warned potential drug users to be wary of the free heroin.

With legalization this would never happen...think about other drugs

dankpete Reviewed by dankpete on 02-05-2006. Legalization could have prevented this... http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-heroin05.html# With legalization this would never happen...think about other drugs Rating: 5

[Myth1184]

Heroine should never...ever be legalized. They deserve the fate they got.

[Shelbay]

Heroine should never...ever be legalized. They deserve the fate they got.

I thought heroin was legal..as in Methadone? Not sure..just know what I read in the papers about that.

[Strikerrr]

nah fuck Heroin my uncle used to be a junkie it ruined him.

[beachguy in thongs]

I thought heroin was legal..as in Methadone? Not sure..just know what I read in the papers about that.

Methadone is still a schedule II drug.

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

legal or not, if someone wanted to mass murder a certian drug user, it would happen the same way. legal or not.


this is unavoiadable, no matter what you do. the only thing that can prevent prejudice attacks like this is to eliminate prejudicy, and we can all see how likely that is.

[Swizzy89304]

Good. Fuckin scag heads, the less on the streets the better - and I hope it was a painful death, they deserve no less.

[daves19]

Heroine should never...ever be legalized. They deserve the fate they got.

why such a limited point of view??
asking the same to Swizzy89304...

gees guys, you make me sick...if those drugs would have been legalized, a real prevention could have started and reduce the amount of addicts...not everyone knows heroin is addictive unfortunately...

dumb asses

[CocaCola]

Becasue they are your average pot endorsing, "ALL SYNTH CHEMS ARE EVIL!", don't have a goddamn clue pods. Wishing death on people, seriously... it's not this site... it's not just some of the people but... everyone on this planet is such an idiot.

[beachguy in thongs]

It seems millions of dead, drunk drivers could've have changed history if Marijuana had been legal. Until the 30's, all we needed to be happy was a joint and an antique car.



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